Development

Sun Microsystems Inc. has released a beta version of the next release of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), a set of specifications used to develop Java applications primarily for desktop computers.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is experimenting with a three-dimensional (3D) desktop interface that could alter the way users see their screens

As expected, the Eclipse open source tools project founded by IBM Corp. announced this week that it has been reorganized into a not-for-profit corporation and named the first members of its new board of directors.

The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Forum, an industry organization formed to create and promote VoiceXML, announced on Tuesday that the 2.0 specification has been granted Proposed Recommendation status by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Sun Microsystems Inc., in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM Corp. posted on Sun's Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun's Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM's own employees.

Little-known Chinese software maker Evermore Software Ltd. next month plans to step up its challenge to Microsoft Corp.'s Office dominance with the release of its Evermore Integrated Office 2004.

Sun Microsystems Inc. says its Jxta technology for peer-to-peer computing is gathering steam and may soon make its way into some of its own products.

After attracting more than a million software developers to create applications for mobile phones, Nokia Corp. plans a new program to offer development tools and technical information to those programmers who are demanding more